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The St. Louis Lady Arm Wrestlers (SLLAW) combine the theatricality of professional wrestling with the over-the-top power of Sylvester Stallone's character in cult film Over the Top. These hand-grapplers wear outlandish costumes and develop wild personae to aid them as they test their strength. The Masquerade Brawl is the group's first bout of 2018, and it features old favorites such as Lucille Brawl, Surly Temple and Betsy Boss, as well as some new competitors. The Masquerade Brawl starts at 9 p.m. tonight at the Heavy Anchor (5226 Gravois Avenue; www.sllaw.org), and poet/bassist Tonina provides the halftime show. Admission is $10, but cash to bribe competitors is often useful. Proceeds benefit the Center for Women in Transition.
$10

For young black women, beauty supply shops provide their first real creative outlet. Keeping up with the latest trends allows them to learn how to protect and care, use makeup and get pointers from older women. It's a communal experience that the rest of us seldom, if ever, experience. In her art, Katherine Simóne Reynolds explores how commerce and her community meet in these shops every Friday night. Her new exhibition, Mane 'n Tail</b>, shows her work and also has artists LaKela Brown, Narcissister and Rachel Youn interpreting this idea. Mane 'n Tail opens with a free reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, January 19, at the the Luminary (2701 Cherokee Street; www.theluminaryarts.com) and continues through March 8.
free admission

GutterGlitter's underground queer dance party and drag show is back this February to celebrate queer love and friendship for Galentines Day!
Performances by:
Maxi Glamour
Roxie Valentine
Schuyler Control
Mustache Daddy
Diamond Devereaux
Rook
This is a queer safe space, so $5 for us quierdo's, $70 for cis straight men.
Radical queers and our friends.
Dancing.
Mimosas.
Baked Goods.
Cash bar.
100% of the proceeds go to the artists.
18+
DJVincaMinor will be spinning beats exclusively by women and queer folx.
$5-$70

Arm wrestling like you've never seen it before at The Heavy Anchor! Featuring new characters plus all of your favorites competing in our opening bout of 2018! Halftime show featuring bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Tonina. Doors at 8:00 p.m., Show at 9:00. $10 at the door, and bring cash for bribes! All proceeds benefit the Center for Women in Transition.
$10.00

Mane ‘n Tail is an exhibition curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds that investigates the intersectionality of the beauty exchange: How the Beauty Supply store manipulates the way women of color feel about themselves, as well as the relationship between the purchasers of beauty and the people and spaces that supply it.
Participating artists include LaKela Brown, Pamela Council, Baseerah Khan, Abigail Lucien, Narcissister, Yvonne Osei, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, SHANEQUA, Diamond Stingily, and Rachel Youn.
Free

The Comedy Shipwreck open mic
Weekly open mic, each and every Monday.
The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois St. Louis, MO 63116
Free show, and $1.00 PBR's!
Show starts at 10 pm
If you want to try your hand at telling jokes, sign up at 9:30 pm
Free

To walk into the Hideaway is to enter a place that seems frozen in time, where the dozen or so seats around the piano are packed with your grandparents' friends, decked out in chunky jewelry and tilted fedora hats. Ostensibly, they're here to listen to Mark Dew play — he's here Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights — but you're just as likely to hear one of those old-timers sitting around the piano trill Charlie Rich's "The Most Beautiful Girl." And when Dew finally has his turn at the mic, he'll say something humble, like, "I apologize; it should have been in the key of F." No matter. Dew is the conductor of this time-traveling train, and everyone's on board. Dew, who is blind, has been the piano man here for nearly a quarter-century and jokes that the best part about working here is, well, getting paid. He marvels at the younger set trickling in and its knowledge of the Cash and Sinatra songbooks: "The more the crowd gets into it, the more I play," Dew says. And that's enough to keep him around. "I'm not quite ready to be out to pasture," he says. "Yet."
free